Ex-CNBC boss admits to planting bathroom camera to spy on teenage nanny in Westchester home

Former CNBC television director Daniel Switzen was arrested in November 2017 for spying on his teenage nanny with a hidden camera in his Pleasantville home. (Westchester County Office of the)

A former CNBC director could face up to four years in prison after he admitted he planted a camera in the bathroom of his Westchester County home to spy on his teenage au pair.

Dan Switzen, who worked on finance guru Suze Orman's show, hid the camera inside a tissue box in his Pleasantville home, according to authorities.

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Switzen, 44, pleaded guilty in Westchester County Court Tuesday to unlawful surveillance, and faces the prospect of one-and-a-half to four years behind bars when he's sentenced Aug. 1. He must also register as a sex offender.

On Nov. 13, his 18-year-old live-in nanny invited two of her friends, also 18, over to the house, where one of them discovered the camera in the bathroom, sources told the Daily News, which broke the story of his arrest in December.

Switzen confessed he placed the camera to capture his nanny and her friends on video, prosecutors said.

Switzen directed "The Suze Orman Show" on CNBC for more than a decade, and was most recently listed as a director for the network's "Power Lunch" program.